Straight: The game has quite a few barrels around environments which explode when shot.

Exaggerated:

Exploding barrels play a major role in this game and can be found everywhere.

There are special barrels which, when shot, produce a huge mushroom cloud like explosion.

The barrels explode when even slightly touched.

Downplayed: In one area, bombs hidden in barrels are packed around a support. The character is supposed to shoot them later to take out the support,but otherwise the barrels don't explode.

Justified:

Those barrels can be found in a military firing range and are used for training.

The barrels contain a liquid which ignites when exposed to air.

Inverted: Those barrels actually heal anything around them when shot.

Subverted: An exploding barrel is shot but it goes "Hssss" sound while running empty from the holes.

Double Subverted: A barrel is shot. It does nothing first. Then, after 30 seconds, it explodes.

Parodied: The enemies are ordered to stay next to them and carry them around.

Zig Zagged: Sometimes the barrels explode, sometimes they don't.

Averted: The barrels in the game are not explosive.

Enforced: The game is am intentional Serious Sam clone. Without exploding barrels there'd be no way to beat the hundreds of monsters swarming you.

Lampshaded: "Isn't it dangerous to store explosives out in the open like this?"

Invoked: A character puts explosive chemicals in a barrel to make it explosive.

Exploited: A character, knowing that appropriately marked barrels will explode, shoots one which happens to be near a group of enemies.

Defied: Any explosive material will be kept in special storage rooms and in safe containers.

Discussed: "Quick! Head for that store-room full of conspicuously-placed barrels! We'll blow those mooks to high heaven!"

Conversed: "Dude, when you're playing this game you need to aim for the barrels when they're all clumped around them like that!"

Deconstructed: The barrels explode easily because they are made of easily combustible material, which is a serious safety hazard. The company that makes the barrels is sued for negligence and shut down.

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